A-Trak Fabric 45

It looks like Montreal born NY based A-Trak will get his shot at the the Fabric live series of mixes from the UK superclub. It will be released April 25th in Europe and in North America on May 5th. (Images - ian random) .

DL : Laidback Luke & A-Trak - Shake It Down (Sebastian Drums & Rolf Dyman remix)


“Meeting Kid Sister when she was first budding as a rapper was great timing for me," A-Trak explains, "Because it allowed me to experiment with a whole different style of production, with an artist who was brand new. It was okay for me to make mistakes and make a bad demo or whatever, because we could kind of figure it out together. Meanwhile, when Nick Catchdubs (who I knew through The Rub) and I were having discussions about the Kid Sister single, I suggested it may be the pretext for starting the label that we’d always talked about, and that’s how Fool’s Gold started. In any city that Nick or I would go to in North America to do a gig, there would be a little scene that would be just like the parties that we were doing in New York: playing some hip hop stuff, some electronic stuff, a couple of Justice records mixed with a bootleg...it was all cross-genres with the only common denominator being that it was some kind of club music and it was all selected with a hip hop ear. It was a lot of fast, fun, creative club music, and that was where we saw Fool’s Gold fitting in.”

A-Trak confirms: “I mixed in some old, classic house records with some newer funk-loop house records that reference the old house records, mixed with some kooky weird Baltimore-ish club edits, mixed with some techno stuff, some slow disco and my own productions. If you see it on paper it looks like a whole mish-mash but the way I put together the mix, it somehow comes together and makes sense. I just looked at it really as a DJ mix: the way that I bring the songs in and the way that I try to put my stamp on it, rocking doubles on some of the records and doing scratch routines and adding layers on top of my edits of the songs, that's what defines its identity. I wanted to let the mix itself do the talking.”

Tracklisting:
01 A-Trak - Say Whoa
02 Boys Noize - Oh! (A-Trak Remix)
03 Scott Grooves-Mothership Reconnection (Daft Punk rmx)
04 Voodoo Chilli - Get On Down
05 Skepta - Sweet Mother (House Version)
06 DJ Class - I'm The Ish
07 Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Diskjokke Remix)
08 His Majesty Andre - Peep Thong
09 Zombie Nation – Forza (Original)
10 Alex Gopher – Aurora
11 Dance Area - AA 24-7
12 Robbie Rivera - MoveMove (DJ Observer&Daniel Heathcliff Remix)
13 Daniele Papini - Church of Nonsense
14 Laidback Luke & A-Trak - Shake It Down
15 Nacho Lovers - Acid Life (Nachos 909 Dub)
16 Rob Threezy - The Chase
17 Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
18 Fan Death - Veronica's Veil (Erol Alkan's Extended Re-Edit)
19 Simon Baker - Plastik (Todd Terje's Turkatech Remix)
20 The Martian - Tobacco Ties
21 DJ Gant-Man - Juke Dat Girl From The Back
22 DJ MP4 - The Book Is On The Table
23 Jamie Anderson & Content - Body Jackin'
24 Raffertie - Do Dat
25 DJ Zinc – 138 Trek